Introductory In-class Assignment: Write a well-developed paragraph about your favorite subgenre. Give an example of a work (story, novel, movie, show, or game, etc) that is a good example of this subgenre. Provide details from the story to explain why you like it as a work in this subgenre. (10 points )
WEEK 2: August 27-29, 2013
Critical Reading / The Fable Lecture 1: Critical Reading
"Silly Symphony: The Grasshopper and the Ants" (Walt Disney, 1934)
Aesop Fables -- modernized versions created by UMass Amherst students
In class small group and comment on Wiki discussion:
Compare and contrast Disney's 1934 "The Grasshopper and the Ants" to Aesop's fable using a rhetorical approach
WEEK 3: Sep 3-5, 2013
Reading 2: Modern Fable: "The Ant and the Grasshopper" by Geoffrey Grosshans
WIKI WORKSHOP - September 5th - in CUB 303 >>Class cancelled due to TS Gabriella
WEEK 4: Sept. 10-12, 2013
WIKI WORKSHOP - September 10th - in CUB 303 (Ed. B)
Homework: Find and read information about Charles Perrault and the Grimm Brothers (use good, academic sources) Charles Perrault's Mother Goose Tales by D.L. Ashliman
Genre: Fairy Tales
Reading 3: Traditional Fairy Tale: "Little Red Riding Hood" by Charles Perrault (trans. from the 1697 French version)
Assignment 3: Plot chart and questions for narrative structure analysis for Traditional Fairy Tale: "Little Red Riding Hood" by Charles Perrault (Eng. trans.)
Angela Carter - biographical information: Author & Text Information for Angela Carter's "The Company of Wolves" created by students from my former Intro to Lit course Second Wave Feminism: the Women's Liberation movement on the 1970s - is a historical context for XCarter's short story collection The Bloody Chamber which includes "The Company of Wolves"
Class discussion: Is "The Company of Wolves" a feminist text? Why or why not? Look for details in the story to support your position.
WEEK 6: Sep 24-26th
Quiz #2 Literary Elements
Viewing: The Company of Wolves [film, 1984] Angela Carte is a co-screen writer of the film. Compare and contrast literary elements in the film versus the story: narrator / point of view narrative voice (who tells the story / stories?) themes or subtexts: female heterosexual awakening, male heterosexuality imagery motifs symbols tone allegory irony - verbal, situational, dramatic plot: setting (time & place) flashbacks flashforwards in medias res
INTRODUCTION TO FICTION - Materials
Below you will find links and files of ENG 201 course materials.hey!
Week 1: Aug 20-22, 2013
Lecture and Discussion: Why Read and Study Fiction?
Introductory Reading "The Cracked Pot" (trans. from traditional Chinese version):
Indian contemporary version of "The Cracked Pot" in video format:
Discussion:
How genre shapes our reading and experience of a text
Introductory Lecture: Popular Genres / Subgenres of Fiction:
Introductory In-class Assignment: Write a well-developed paragraph about your favorite subgenre. Give an example of a work (story, novel, movie, show, or game, etc) that is a good example of this subgenre. Provide details from the story to explain why you like it as a work in this subgenre. (10 points )
WEEK 2: August 27-29, 2013
Critical Reading / The Fable
Lecture 1: Critical Reading
FABLE
Reading 1: Traditional Fable: "The Ant & the Grasshopper" Aesop (text)
The Ant & the Grasshopper" (Matt Barry, Promise4all.com, 2010)
Assignment #1: Critical Reading of "The Ant & the Grasshopper" by Aesop:
Due: August 29th, 2013
Modernized Aesop Fable:
"Silly Symphony: The Grasshopper and the Ants" (Walt Disney, 1934)
Aesop Fables -- modernized versions created by UMass Amherst students
In class small group and comment on Wiki discussion:
Compare and contrast Disney's 1934 "The Grasshopper and the Ants" to Aesop's fable using a rhetorical approach
WEEK 3: Sep 3-5, 2013
Reading 2: Modern Fable: "The Ant and the Grasshopper" by Geoffrey Grosshans"The Ant and the Grasshopper" Geoffery Grosshans
Other Contemporary Fables by Grosshans: http://www.stuffedfabulist.com/
Lecture 2: Characters in Fiction
Assignment #2: Character Analysis of Ant & Grasshopper in Grosshans' story
WIKI WORKSHOP - September 5th - in CUB 303 >>Class cancelled due to TS Gabriella
WEEK 4: Sept. 10-12, 2013
WIKI WORKSHOP - September 10th - in CUB 303 (Ed. B)
Homework: Find and read information about Charles Perrault and the Grimm Brothers (use good, academic sources)Charles Perrault's Mother Goose Tales by D.L. Ashliman
Genre: Fairy Tales
Reading 3: Traditional Fairy Tale: "Little Red Riding Hood" by Charles Perrault (trans. from the 1697 French version)
Lecture 3: Narrative Structure :
Assignment 3: Plot chart and questions for narrative structure analysis for Traditional Fairy Tale: "Little Red Riding Hood" by Charles Perrault (Eng. trans.)
Week 5: Sept. 17-19th
Quiz #1 - Narrative structureModern Fairy Tale
Lecture 4: Literary Elements
Reading 4: Modern Fairy Tale: "The Company of Wolves" by Angela Carter
Assignment #4:
Reading of " The Company of Wolves" (YouTube)
Angela Carter - biographical information:
Author & Text Information for Angela Carter's "The Company of Wolves" created by students from my former Intro to Lit course
Second Wave Feminism: the Women's Liberation movement on the 1970s - is a historical context for XCarter's short story collection The Bloody Chamber which includes "The Company of Wolves"
Class discussion: Is "The Company of Wolves" a feminist text? Why or why not? Look for details in the story to support your position.
WEEK 6: Sep 24-26th
Quiz #2 Literary ElementsViewing: The Company of Wolves [film, 1984] Angela Carte is a co-screen writer of the film.
Compare and contrast literary elements in the film versus the story:
narrator / point of view
narrative voice (who tells the story / stories?)
themes or subtexts: female heterosexual awakening, male heterosexuality
imagery
motifs
symbols
tone
allegory
irony - verbal, situational, dramatic
plot:
setting (time & place)
flashbacks
flashforwards
in medias res
Scenes:
WEEK 7: Oct. 1 - 3, 2013
Genre: Myths & LegendsLecture 5
Reading 5: The Hummingbird (author unknown)
Assignment #5: Myth Chart -
Genre: Legends
Lecture 6: Coll y Toste - Legends of Puerto Rico
Reading 6: "Eleven Thousand Virgins" by Cayetano Coll y Toste (1850-1930) [Trans. Sally Everson]
Assignment #6: Legend Chart
"Once mil virgines" -- scanned Spanish version of story from De oro y esmereldas:
WEEK 8: Oct 8-10
Review for MidTerm Exam: Readings 1-6 and Lectures 1-6: TBUMidterm Exam (Readings 1-6) and Lecture Materials:
(genres, identification & discussion, rhetorical analysis, character analysis, narrative structural analysis, literary elements)
WEEK 9: Oct. 15-17, 2013
Genre: Historical Fiction
Lecture 7: Historical Fiction
Reading 7: Shakespeare in Love [film] (1998) Dir. John Madden
Assignment #7: Complete the Historical Fiction Chart for Shakespeare in Love -- new!
//Shakespeare in Love// Study Guide developed for a Film Education course
WEEK 10: Oct. 22-24, 2013
Finish Viewing: Shakespeare in Love [film]Science Fiction
Lecture 8: Science FictionReading 8: Ursula Le Guin "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas"
Assignment #8:
Some good links:
Ursula Le Guin.com - Official Website
Ursula Le Guin - entry in the Oregon Encylcopedia
Ursula Le Guin - entry in the Georgia Tech Science Fiction Lab
In class writing: Responding to Literature (Institutional Assessment)
WEEK 11: Oct 29-31, 2013
Wiki Project Workshop -- Project 1 - Puerto Rican Folk Story Pages for Folk Literature of Puerto Rico wiki.Coll y Toste Project
Link to a digital version of the story in Coll y Toste's book from University of Florida:
http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00078480/00001/181j?search=1797
Biography of Coll y Toste in Puerto Rico Encyclopedia:
http://www.enciclopediapr.org/ing/article.cfm?ref=09111701
Realist Fiction
Lecture 9: Realist fiction & Social Realism
Reading 9:
"I Want to Work" is from the book Puzzled America published in 1935, which contained stories about the Great Depression.
Spanish version:
Assignment 9: "I Want to Work" as Social Realism
WEEK 12: Nov. 5-7, 2013
Project 1: Presentations -- Coll y Toste FolkstoriesThe Novel
Reading 10: Animal Farm, George Orwell [novel]
Chapters 1-3
On-line Animal Farm
WEEK 13: Nov. 12-14, 2013
Reading 10: Animal Farm, (G. Orwell)
Chapters 4-6
Reading 10:
Chapters 7-10
Lecture 10: Animal Farm: Allegory, Fable, Satire
Assignment 10:
WEEK 14: Nov. 19-21, 2013
Wiki Workshop: Project 2 - Emergent FictionClass will be held in Computer Lab - TBA
Graphic Novel
Lecture 11: Graphic Fiction
Reading 11: Fables, Vol. 2: Animal Farm (Bill Willingham, writer and Mark Buckingham, illustrator)
To purchase on-line:
Fables Vol 2: Animal Farm:
http://www.amazon.com/Fables-Vol-2-Animal-Farm/dp/140120077X/ref=tmm_pap_title_0
WEEK 15: Nov. 26-28, 2013*
Reading 11: Fables, Vol. 2: Animal FarmAssignment 11: TBU
WEEK 16: Dec 3-5, 2013*
Project 2 - Wiki Emerging Fiction Project PresentationsFINAL EXAM REVIEW: Readings 7-11, and Lectures 7-11
FINAL EXAMS WEEK: Dec 10-16th, 2013
FINAL EXAM: Date TBAReadings 7-11 and Lectures 7-11
GRADES DUE: by Dec. 18th